Spontaneous and chemically induced proliferative lesions in Tg.AC transgenic and p53-heterozygous mice

Toxicologic Pathology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 501-511

  Mahler, Joel F ^a   Flagler, Norris D ^a   Malarkey, David E ^b   Mann, Peter C ^c   Haseman, Joseph K ^a   Eastin, William ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY LABORATORIES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Carcinogenicity; Genetically altered; Hazard identification; Mice; Neoplasms

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARCINOGEN TESTING; CARCINOGENICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HETEROZYGOTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOXICOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0031824685     PISSN: 01926233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/019262339802600406     Document Type: Article

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